At the works of contemporary Chinese artists in the Saatchi Gallery in London came to see an average of 5 200 people per day

Until recently, the title of the most popular exhibitions of contemporary art was Sensation, held in 1997 in the London Royal Academy. It is through this exhibition the public has been able to get acquainted with the work of scandalous artists from the group Young British Artists - Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst), Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin), Uering Gillian (Gillian Wearing), and others. All works that could be seen on the Sensation (among them the famous «shark in formaldehyde» Hurst), originated from the collection of Charles Saatchi mediamagnata (Charles Saatchi).

Recently, Saatchi voznamerilsya beat his record in arranging his new London gallery exhibition of contemporary Chinese art . The event is very timely: the rating of the 20 most successful at the art-market artists of 11 seats occupied by the sponsors of the Middle Kingdom. But five years ago, nobody could think that the work of Chinese artists will be able to bring a million dollars at auction! It is time to explain to the public, where it suddenly increased the prices of both Chinese art. Is the work are so expensive only «thanks» speculation, or the Chinese artists are really talented, a genius of many years no one noticed, and now finally all «awake»? .. It seems that this issue was really concerned about a lot of people - now works on Chinese art in the Saatchi gallery come see about 5 200 people a day. It was expected that by the end of the exhibition (18 January) the number of visitors will be 525 thousand people. In 1997, the creation of stars Brit art at the Royal Academy praised «total» 300 thousand art lovers.

The exhibition, called «The revolution continues», represents the crowning achievements of the Chinese national economy in the arts. All stars here: Syaogan Zhang (Zhang Xiaogang), Mintszyun Yue (Yue Minjun), Zeng Fanchzhi (Zeng Fanzhi) and others. However, the main exhibit is not of their paintings, and installation artists ironical Sunja yuan (Sun Yuan), and Yu Peng (Peng Yu). In their draft mannequins decrepit starikashek with the attributes of world leaders - Yasser Arafat (Yasser Arafat), Saddam Hussein (Saddam Hussein), Clinton (Bill Clinton), and others - go to electric wheelchairs, one of the halls. The whole exhibition took three floors with total area of 4 500 square meters.

One of the main advantages of the new Saatchi Gallery - that all of it can be free. Sponsor Gallery - auction house Phillips de Pury & Co., recently, by the way, Russia gained luxurious retailers Mercury Group . The next project Saatchi - the Middle East art exhibition entitled Unveiled (this word can be translated as «open», as «not closed yashmak»). Collector said that, while now the art of Iran, Lebanon and the UAE is not as popular as the Chinese, he has a great future. Saatchi, himself born in Iraq, holds that the art of the weakness that leads to the Middle East draw attention - with high probability there is «hatch» next Damien Hurst or Zhang Syaogan.

The objective of Saatchi - bring in your gallery a million visitors a year. Impressive, considering that for three years, the gallery that held in its old building opposite the British Parliament, it had about 600 thousand people. Gallery Tate Modern, its chief rival, in the year, attracts about four million visitors. But in recent years, interest in contemporary art has grown very strongly, therefore, a challenge that has Saatchi, no longer seems such an impossible exercise.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Source: guardian.co . uk , artinvestment.ru